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I will fill its mountains with its slain: in your hills and in your valleys and in all your watercourses shall they fall who are slain with the sword.
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An All-Encompassing Judgment
Commentators explain that the imagery of filling mountains, hills, valleys, and even dry riverbeds with the slain is meant to convey the absolute totality of God's judgment. The slaughter would be so universal and widespread that no part of the land would offer refuge, graphically illustrating the inescapable consequences of opposing God.
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Ezekiel
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19th Century
Anglican
Rivers. — As elsewhere, this refers to river-courses, in which water was found only at times.
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And I will fill his mountains with his slain men Not only Mount Seir, but all the rest of the mountains, in Idumea; …
Presbyterian
All who have God against them, have the word of God against them. Those who have a constant hatred for God and his people, as the carnal mind has, …
